GE Aviation announces Wave 1 hiring for new Ellisville plant

GE Aviation’s Ellisville, Miss., manufacturing plant is nearing completion and the firm, and Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant, announced Oct. 11 that a hiring process is to begin in November. The 340,000 square-foot composites manufacturing facility, located 25 miles NNE of Hattiesburg and 9 miles SSW of Laurel, will begin a first wave of hiring Nov. 5 for the production of aircraft engine components. GEA expects to hire 250 personnel within five years. Wave 1 hiring begins with production associates. Those positions will be posted Nov. 5 at the WIN Job Center in Laurel, Miss. Job hires will begin work in March. GE Aviation’s new plant is the firm’s second in Mississippi and represents a $56 million company investment. Source: Y’all Politics, Oct. 11, 2012.